verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exceed a limit (= go beyond a limit )
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He reported a driver for exceeding the speed limit.
exceed a maximum
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The fine must not exceed the statutory maximum.
exceed a quota
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The fishermen were accused of exceeding their quotas.
exceed a target (= achieve more than you wanted to )
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We have exceeded our target of £200,000.
exceed a threshold
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The value of many family homes far exceeds the inheritance tax threshold.
exceed sth in importance formal (= be more important than something else )
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For him, winning Wimbledon exceeded all other tournaments in importance.
exceed the dose (= take more of a medicine than is recommended )
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You should take care not to exceed the recommended dose of paracetamol.
exceed/break the speed limit
exceed/overstep your authority (= do more than you have the power or right to do )
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A higher court decided that the judge had exceeded his authority.
exceed/surpass sb's expectations (= be or do better than you hoped or expected )
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The holiday exceeded our expectations.
supply outstrips/exceeds demand (= more is available than people need or want )
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In the 1980s, the supply of grain far exceeded the demand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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His achievements had already exceeded his highest hopes, and he anticipated equal if not greater success from the great continent.
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In some districts the management costs of fundholding already exceed the cost of running the family health services authority.
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By the end of November, assets already exceeded that forecast by $ 170 billion.
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The intention is to further raise the quality of service across the branches, though many already exceed the new targets.
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The church's legal costs topped $ 1m last year and already exceed $ 100,000 this year.
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The current land supply already exceeds the five year requirement.
even
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In elderly people in industrialised societies the prevalence of arterial hypertension approaches or even exceeds 50%.
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The levels reached by 1971 exceeded even the considerable levels achieved before the First World War.
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The hope was realized - but in a style that must have exceeded even Chapman's wildest dreams.
far
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Some aspects of this immediacy can also be transmitted by our contacts with non-human organisms whose lifespan far exceeds our own.
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Despite heightened public awareness in the last decade, the need for donated organs still far exceeds the supply.
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Is it realistic to talk of a multiplicity of body plans in the Cambrian, far exceeding that of the present day?
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Because their distortion is easier on the ear, tube designs tend to far exceed their rated power.
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The effort put into marketing and customer service far exceeds the effort in production and in research.
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They said he had far exceeded his limits in acquiring mortgages that were packaged into a particularly risky form of securities.
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Central Office experts had to confess that their harshest forecast had been far exceeded .
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This total of 84 million far exceeds all other estimates that we have seen.
greatly
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Touts make money when the demand for their tickets greatly exceeds the supply at the official price.
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He uses his great influence and his knowledge as a lawyer for not paying his debts, which greatly exceed his fortune.
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Agricultural and industrial demand, amplified by population growth, often greatly exceeds the rate of natural recharge.
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For items where costs have been disclosed, these estimates have been greatly exceeded .
never
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The economy moves from point A to point C and y never exceeds y *;.
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From 1930 until 1937 the total annual budget of the 515 never exceeded $ 17, 400.
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They discovered that the difference in attendance between any recession and the year before it started has never exceeded 2 p.c.
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The supply of people who have money to be robbed of will never exceed the demand to rob them.
often
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Storage costs often exceed the value of goods stored during the normal turnover period.
only
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In fact, the range of size is exceeded only by the range of habit.
rarely
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Spring passage is also quite slight, numbers rarely exceeding about 10 birds in any spring.
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For most industries, costs attributable to environmental regulations rarely exceed about 1.5 % of the total.
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The shoals rarely exceed fifty, and are more likely to number less than thirty.
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They identified about four hundred units and suggested that they accommodate over seven thousand pupils at ratios rarely exceeding 6 to 1.
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Elsewhere the numbers seen together have rarely exceeded 10 to 30 birds.
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From the information available it seems likely that the total winter population of the county now rarely exceeds 4,000 birds.
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Britain's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point.
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The porosity of the lagoonal mudstones is mainly of the intercrystalline type and rarely exceeds 2-3%.
■ NOUN
amount
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The amount should not exceed 4° in 15 minutes.
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Also, the amount paid exceeds the authorized monthly rate of pay for the director of data services position.
authority
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Application must be made to the legal aid area office for authority to exceed this limit.
benefit
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They are likely to do so only if the perceived benefits exceed the expected costs.
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Your marginal costs are also society's marginal costs, but society's marginal benefits exceed your own.
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So a private sector agent will only provide a public good if his private benefits exceed the costs of producing the good.
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This is because the explicit tax rate and the means-tested benefit withdrawal rate exceeds unity.
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In this example, the marginal benefit of another film exceeds the marginal cost of producing another film.
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The capital stock should be increased if the marginal social benefit exceeds the long-run marginal cost inclusive of the capital charge.
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Only if the benefit withdrawal rate exceeded 100 percent would the individual actually be worse off under such a proposal.
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But when films are taxed we have just seen that the marginal social benefit of another film exceeds its marginal cost.
billion
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The combined company will have sales exceeding $ 6 billion .
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In 1990 alone our trade deficit exceeded $ 100 billion .
capacity
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The demands made by terminals on channels and lines are very unlikely to exceed their capacity .
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According to the survey, nine 24-bike trains and one 48-bike train met or exceeded capacity .
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Delays are unlikely to exceed a few minutes while capacity is maximised.
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This stated that living creatures multiply at a rate that exceeds the capacity of the environment to maintain them.
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Extreme events which exceed the normal capacity of the human system to reflect, absorb or buffer them are inherent in hazard.
cost
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Sometimes the development costs exceed the resources of even the largest firms.
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For example, if the cost of injuries exceeds $ 5, 000, the other party may be sued.
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In some districts the management costs of fundholding already exceed the cost of running the family health services authority.
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All operation and maintenance costs are those costs that exceed 0 and M for the base case of oil boilers.
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A Union Jack was to be purchased for the occasion at a cost not exceeding one pound.
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From 1989 through 1992 the combined annual cost exceeded $ 50, 000 in three of the four years.
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A government cost benefit analysis in 1986 showed that the cost of vaccination exceeded the worst case scenario cost of eradication.
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The packaging costs exceed the cost of basic ingredients in soft drinks, breakfast cereals, soups, and frozen dinners.
costs
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If the growth of labour costs exceeds that of productivity, the profit share is squeezed.
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All operation and maintenance costs are those costs that exceed 0 and M for the base case of oil boilers.
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Sometimes the development costs exceed the resources of even the largest firms.
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The packaging costs exceed the cost of basic ingredients in soft drinks, breakfast cereals, soups, and frozen dinners.
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Storage costs often exceed the value of goods stored during the normal turnover period.
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In some districts the management costs of fundholding already exceed the cost of running the family health services authority.
demand
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This frequently meant that the demand for money exceeded the supply of money that the authorities were prepared to permit.
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Often the demands simply exceeded what human flesh could obey.
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Pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers breed their own animals, but demand always exceeds supply and extremely high prices are paid.
earnings
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Shares of computer equipment companies nationwide surged after several members of the industry reported earnings that exceeded expectations.
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He adds that per-share earnings growth could exceed 90 % for 1995.
estimate
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For these reasons a number of highly estimated lots failed to find buyers while others far exceeded their estimates.
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The profits exceeded analysts' estimates .
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Spitfire restorations to airworthy status have notoriously exceeded initial estimates of timing and cost, irrespective of start point condition.
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Kriegel was determined not to let the cost exceed the estimate without a fight.
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In all the funeral exceeded the bishop's estimate by over £540, amounting to £940 18s. 11d.
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This total of 84 million far exceeds all other estimates that we have seen.
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There was the rub - Rose Lipman complained they were exceeding the estimates .
expectations
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Within twelve months it had exceeded expectations and become a £40million growth product.
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Cyrix reported a fourth-quarter loss of 49 cents a share, which exceeded most analysts expectations .
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We felt that the interaction and integration had exceeded our expectations .
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Shares of computer equipment companies nationwide surged after several members of the industry reported earnings that exceeded expectations .
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He felt sure he had exceeded Jeopardy's expectations .
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Ponsolle said sales in 1995 exceeded expectations .
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All observers noted that the elections had been free and fair and that conduct had exceeded all expectations .
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Morrison has been flirting with a jazz album for some time, but this at-long-last effort exceeds expectations .
growth
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If the growth of labour costs exceeds that of productivity, the profit share is squeezed.
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He adds that per-share earnings growth could exceed 90 % for 1995.
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This would mean that the firm's growth rate would exceed its cost of capital.
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Agricultural and industrial demand, amplified by population growth , often greatly exceeds the rate of natural recharge.
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Britain's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point.
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Last month, Motorola said it reckons growth won't exceed ten per cent.
income
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Jeffrey was refused help with the prescription for his inhaler because the Department of Health said his income exceeded the required level.
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The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200.
level
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The levels reached by 1971 exceeded even the considerable levels achieved before the First World War.
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The standard requires detectors to sound before carbon monoxide levels exceed 100 parts per million for 90 minutes.
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In addition, even this measure could not guarantee that recent flood levels would not be exceeded .
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The general level of wages exceeded the marginal disutility of employment.
limit
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Penalties are also steep for those who exceed their overdraft limits .
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Fines for speeding range from $ 57. 60 to $ 360, depending on how much drivers exceed the legal limits .
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Application must be made to the legal aid area office for authority to exceed this limit .
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The local police frequently arrested students for exceeding the speed limit or other minor infractions of the law.
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What happens if you exceed your limit ?
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They said he had far exceeded his limits in acquiring mortgages that were packaged into a particularly risky form of securities.
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I may be guilty of exceeding the speed limit .
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If those damages exceeded the policy limits , the motorist could sue the other party for the excess.
million
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Analysts said they won't be surprised if the charge exceeds $ 100 million .
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In the first three years of the program, Emery reported documented savings exceeding $ 2 million .
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The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.
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Because the deal exceeds $ 1 million , it must also be approved by the Board of Supervisors.
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By 1990, the payrolls for each of the senators from Mississippi exceeded $ 1 million .
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The 1995 total marked the second annual increase in a row and exceeded five million for the first time in three years.
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The standard requires detectors to sound before carbon monoxide levels exceed 100 parts per million for 90 minutes.
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Schmitt has annual sales exceeding $ 175 million .
month
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Would first statements made up to 28 February 1994 be deemed to exceed 18 months ?
number
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If the actual number of entry-versions exceeds the design assumption by more than 25%, the system will be unmanageable.
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The number of dead exceeds ten thousand... and the burn victims continue to die.
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Spring passage is also quite slight, numbers rarely exceeding about 10 birds in any spring.
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Now protected, its numbers do not exceed five hundred.
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Group numbers in dolphins may reach into the thousands and oceanic dolphins may gather in numbers exceeding 100,000.
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The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.
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If the number of rejects exceeds the level, the batch is returned. 24.
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Only in 10 out of 23 countries does the total number of female graduates exceed 20 percent.
percent
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Quantity and location of rust markings is important and should not exceed ten percent of body colour.
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The number of option contracts can not exceed 10 percent of the number of securities in issue. 2.
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Only in 10 out of 23 countries does the total number of female graduates exceed 20 percent .
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Foreign investment was, however, not generally to exceed 49 percent of the firm's capital.
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Fat content can not exceed 30 percent .
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Only if the benefit withdrawal rate exceeded 100 percent would the individual actually be worse off under such a proposal.
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By the year 2005, the percentage of service jobs in the economy likely will exceed 80 percent .
period
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He also made it a condition that she be treated by a psychiatrist for a period not exceeding one year.
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Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years.
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The population of Halling during this period probably did not exceed a hundred.
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His prize-money in the period exceeded $ 11.1m.
population
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By 1948 another sharp increase to 19,765 had occurred, with the average daily population exceeding 20,000 in July of that year.
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The population has always exceeded the land base. 10.
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Numbers at each site vary annually and the total recorded population has yet to exceed 20-25 pairs.
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But sustainability in such arid circumstances depends on sustainable populations which do not exceed the resources.
price
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The share price , which exceeded $ 75 in 1998, is now just above $ 45.
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All the gold fulfilled maturing forward contracts where the contract price exceeded the spot price.
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Equating marginal cost and marginal revenue, each firm will produce an output at which price exceeds marginal cost.
product
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Net national product exceeds national income by the amount of indirect business taxes-sales and excise taxes, primarily.
quota
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You should check that you have not exceeded your disk quota .
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Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days, reports said.
range
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In fact, the range of size is exceeded only by the range of habit.
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Never try to exceed the range of movement available but work within it instead.
rate
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This would mean that the firm's growth rate would exceed its cost of capital.
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It is caused by excessive destruction of erythrocytes at a rate that exceeds the conjugating ability of the liver.
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If the rate of return exceeds the rate of interest, the investment will be profitable.
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Interest rates on offshore deposits exceed those on comparable domestic deposits because offshore deposits are not subject to reserve requirements.
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This is because the explicit tax rate and the means-tested benefit withdrawal rate exceeds unity.
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This stated that living creatures multiply at a rate that exceeds the capacity of the environment to maintain them.
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They could not pay back even quite small sums, since the rate of interest exceeded their earnings.
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Only if the benefit withdrawal rate exceeded 100 percent would the individual actually be worse off under such a proposal.
result
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The results exceeded his wildest hopes.
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The results exceeded analysts' expectations of $ 1. 64 a share.
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The results exceeded the promoters' wildest dreams.
sale
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The rebate is usually conditional on your accounts being paid on time and a certain sales value being exceeded .
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The combined company will have sales exceeding $ 6 billion.
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Payment of that deferred consideration depended on the amount by which the acquired company's sales exceeded a certain figure.
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Ponsolle said sales in 1995 exceeded expectations.
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Safeway, the food retailer, was up 0.7 per cent after news that its Christmas sales had exceeded market forecasts.
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I am confident that he will pursue this course and continue to run a department whose sales exceed our expectations.
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By 1983, export sales exceeded domestic sales.
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Schmitt has annual sales exceeding $ 175 million.
share
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The share price, which exceeded $ 75 in 1998, is now just above $ 45.
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Cyrix reported a fourth-quarter loss of 49 cents a share , which exceeded most analysts expectations.
speed
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The devices would cut the fuel supply if the speed limit were exceeded .
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If the ascent speed is exceeded , a flashing slow warning is given.
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Diff-locks click out when speeds or steering angles exceed preset limits.
standard
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For the remaining 5 percent of the year, they are allowed to exceed the standards by an unlimited amount.
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Over the last three years, water pumped from the convention center exceeded state standards for toxic metals on 11 occasions.
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These figures are typical and it is therefore evident that the service is not only meeting, but exceeding national standards .
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On two days out of three in 1988 the air exceeded national health standards .
sum
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When the value of your fund exceeds the guaranteed sum assured deductions will cease.
supply
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Yet, despite the mushrooming of coffee bars in the high streets of western countries, supply still exceeds demand.
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But only 37 percent of those tires have been reused because the supply of shredded tires exceeds demand, Sidnell said.
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Officials estimate that supply has exceeded demand by £7.5 billion since the beginning of 1988.
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Electricity supplies would be fixed and there would be cuts in supply if limits were exceeded .
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The current land supply already exceeds the five year requirement.
target
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Only 70 state enterprises exceeded their planned profit target in the year.
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There is no worry about eating the right foods or exceeding the calorie target .
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The overall student target for the School was exceeded with virtually every subject reaching or exceeding its target.
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The December figure brought the annual average for 1989 up to 10.6 percent, exceeding the government's target of 8 percent.
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Table 8.3 shows that the government regularly exceeded its monetary targets .
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It exceeded its investment target by thirty-nine percent, but most of the money went towards tourism.
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The intention is to further raise the quality of service across the branches, though many already exceed the new targets .
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Companies using this method will usually reject any project which exceeds their target payback period.
threshold
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When the measurements exceed pre-programmed thresholds , alerts will be sent to a base station computer.
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If the total strength of the input signals exceeds a certain threshold , the unit sends a signal on to other units.
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Any system in which more than 10 percent of monitored, high-risk residences exceeded that threshold was cited.
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If a software unit exceeds an error threshold , throw it out, and have a different developer do the recoding.
value
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Only collect information if its actual or potential value exceeds the cost of collecting it.
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The rebate is usually conditional on your accounts being paid on time and a certain sales value being exceeded .
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The goal is for its value to exceed 50 × 10 20 keV sec per m 3.
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When the value of your fund exceeds the guaranteed sum assured deductions will cease.
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The decision-maker tries to maximise the objective up to the goal value but is not interested in values exceeding the goal.
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Hence this value can not exceed 19.
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They can not move until values again exceed the size of their loan.
year
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Organisers expect the crowds this year easily to exceed the record attendance of 170,000 over four days in 1992.
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Already the number of stranded cetaceans this year exceeds the annual average in the past decade.
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The church's legal costs topped $ 1m last year and already exceed $ 100,000 this year.
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Last year they totalled about 2.5% and this year are unlikely to exceed 2%.
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Using union figures, allowances being paid at the start of this year exceeded the number originally intended by more than 3,000.
years
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Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years .
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In this series we feel that no carcinoma was missed by barium enema in view of the follow up exceeding four years .
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The period of patency is very long, exceeding two years in all the genera examined.
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Nevertheless, there is considerable stability in this firm, and average partner service exceeds seven years .
■ VERB
expect
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Revenues, from reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear fuels, are not expected to exceed £5.2 billion.
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It expects revenue to exceed $ 100 million this year, up from $ 85 million last year.
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The number taking part was expected to exceed 100,000.
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No holding in any one company is expected to exceed 2% of the portfolio's value.
meet
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For decades the main aim of every enterprise was to meet or exceed government-set output targets rather than to improve production methods.
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Those objectives were fully met , and exceeded ....
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According to the survey, nine 24-bike trains and one 48-bike train met or exceeded capacity.
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It also said fiscal 1996 revenue should meet or exceed analysts' projections.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Births exceeded deaths by a ratio of 3 to 1.
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Construction costs for the bridge could exceed $230 million.
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In the Far East, home computer ownership is expected to exceed that of the US and Europe combined.
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Legal requirements state that working hours must not exceed 42 hours a week.
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Metcalf has achieved 49 touchdowns, far exceeding even those of his famous father.
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Nearly 100 cities have air pollution that exceeds federal standards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, if the cost of injuries exceeds $ 5, 000, the other party may be sued.
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In essence, this requires assessment of whether the extra benefits exceed the higher costs.
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Indeed, at one point the peak of a worst case fluctuation actually exceeds that of the best case.
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She claims that the concept of the additional premium exceeding the amount of the claim will be familiar to motorists.
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The conservative justices said the lawmakers had exceeded their constitutional authority.
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The size of the gang, however, should be kept as small as possible and should not exceed six members.
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The total portfolio exceeds nine hundred million.
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They are likely to do so only if the perceived benefits exceed the expected costs.